He’s stitched from the dead, soaked in sorrow, and newly born in Guillermo del Toro’s hands.

In this episode of Xenomania, Jon, Ryan, and Kearns break open the coffin lid on the upcoming Frankenstein, del Toro’s long-gestating adaptation of the gothic classic. What does it mean for the creature to feel? To love? To rage against his makers?

They discuss the early visuals, the tragic elegance of the new creature design, the casting of Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, and Andrew Garfield, and how this version promises to be the most mythic, mournful Frankenstein yet.

Plus: literary roots, monster metaphors, and how grief becomes horror in del Toro’s universe.